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The art of art history : a critical anthology / edited by Donald Preziosi.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

595 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

"The Art of Art History is a unique guide to understanding art history through a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: aesthetics, style, history as an art, iconography and semiology, gender, modernity and postmodernity, deconstruction and museology. More than thirty readings from writers as diverse as Winckelmann, Kant, Gombrich, Warburg, Panofsky, Heidegger, Lisa Tickner, Meyer Schapiro, Jacques Derrida, Mary Kelly, Michel Foucault, Rosalind Krauss, Louis Marin, Margaret Iversen, and Nestor Canclini are brought together, and Donald Preziosi's introductions to each topic provide background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake. His own concluding essay is an important and original contribution to scholarship in the field."--Amazon.

Oxford history of art

Oxford history of art.

Art -- Historiography.

Preziosi, Donald, 1941-

Includes bibliographical references (pages 528-568) and index.

Art history : making the visible legible / Donald Preziosi -- Reflections on the imitation of Greek works in painting and sculpture / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Winckelmann divided : mourning the death of art history / Whitney Davis -- Patterns of intention / Michael Baxandall -- What is enlightenment? ; The critique of judgement / Immanuel Kant -- Philosophy of fine art / G.W.F. Hegel -- Principles of art history / Heinrich Wölfflin -- "Form," nineteenth-century metaphysics, and the problem of art historical description / David Summers -- Style / Meyer Schapiro -- Style / Ernst Gombrich -- Leading characteristics of the late Roman "Kunstwollen" / Alois Riegl -- Images from the region of the Pueblo Indians of North America / Aby Warburg -- Warburg's concept of "Kulturwissenschaft" and its meaning for aesthetics / Edgar Wind -- Retrieving Warburg's tradition / Margaret Iversen -- Semiotics and iconography / Hubert Damisch -- Semiotics and art history : a discussion of context and senders / Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson -- "Et in Arcadia ego" : Poussin and the elegiac tradition / E. Panofsky -- Toward a theory of reading in the visual arts : Poussin's "The Arcadian shepherds" / Louis Marin -- Sculpture in the expanded field / Rosalind Krauss -- What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- The allegorical impulse : toward a theory of postmodernism / Craig Owens -- Mapping the postmodern / Andreas Huyssen -- The art historical canon : sins of omission / Nanette Salomon -- Sexuality and/in representation : five British artists / Lisa Tickner -- No essential femininity / Mary Kelly and Paul Smith -- Postfeminism, feminist pleasures, and embodied theories of art / Amelia Jones -- The temptation of new perspectives / Stephen Melville -- The origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger -- The still life as a personal object : a note on Heidegger and van Gogh / Meyer Schapiro -- Restitutions of the truth in pointing ["pointure"] / Jacques Derrida -- Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell -- The art museum as ritual / Carol Duncan -- Inventing the "postcolonial" : hybridity and constituency in contemporary curating / Annie E. Coombes -- Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Néstor García Canclini -- The art of art history / Donald Preziosi.

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